| | Chapter
13 |
| 1 | The
burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see. |
| 2 | Lift ye up a banner upon the high
mountain, exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand, that they may go into the
gates of the nobles. |
| 3 | I
have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine
anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. |
| 4 | The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a
great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together:
the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle. |
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5 | They come from a far country, from the end of
heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole
land. |
| 6 | Howl ye; for the
day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the
Almighty. |
| 7 | Therefore
shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt: |
| 8 | And they shall be afraid: pangs and
sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that
travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as
flames. |
| 9 | Behold, the day
of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land
desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. |
| 10 | For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in
his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. |
| 11 | And I will punish the world for
their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy
of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. |
| 12 | I will make a man more
precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. |
| 13 | Therefore I will shake the
heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD
of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. |
| 14 | And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that
no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every
one into his own land. |
| 15 |
Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is
joined unto them shall fall by the sword. |
| 16 | Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before
their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished. |
| 17 | Behold, I will stir up the
Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall
not delight in it. |
| 18 |
Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity
on the fruit of the womb; their eyes shall not spare children. |
| 19 | And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms,
the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom
and Gomorrah. |
| 20 | It
shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to
generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the
shepherds make their fold there. |
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21 | But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses
shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs
shall dance there. |
| 22 |
And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and
dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days
shall not be prolonged. |
